Wednesday, February 27, 2008

The Hamas war against Israel claims victim

Workers survey the damage after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza landed in a factory in the southern Israeli town of Sderot February 27, 2008. A Palestinian rocket attack from the Gaza Strip killed one person in Israel on Wednesday, the Zaka emergency service said. Crude rockets fired from the Hamas-controlled territory rarely cause fatalities in Israel and the death seemed likely to increase pressure on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to order stronger military action in the Gaza Strip.REUTERS/Amir Cohen (ISRAEL)27 Feb 2008An Israeli college student was killed Wednesday afternoon (27 Feb) when a Kassam rocket exploded in a parking lot near the Sapir College campus in southern Israel. Two others were lightly wounded.A total of 22 Kassam rockets were fired by Palestinian terrorists from Gaza on Wednesday afternoon, hitting a Sderot factory cafeteria shortly after some 100 workers had left the room. Another rocket caused severe damage to a residential building in the city's Neveh Eshkol neighborhood.Hamas has claimed responsibility for the rocket attacks. (Ynet report)(Ministry of Foreign Affairs)